<p>Hello :) How are you guys doing?</p>
<p>It’s not high school that matters, it’s the habits you develop during high school that matter.</p>
<p>^^ This kid’s not getting into med school.</p>
<p>I might want to be a doctor, but I still want to go to a good school for undergrad, where I can learn whatever I want before I commit myself to a career.</p>
<p>Would you rather get your **** together in HS, and suffer very few penalties, or not give a **** until college, where you run the risk of losing ****?</p>
<p>HS matters for some.</p>
<p>Med Schools will take the 3.9 from UCLA over the 3.1 from Harvard pretty much every time… The habits you develop however will be with you for life</p>
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<p>Of course it doesn’t :)</p>
<p>Med school doesn’t matter either…I know someone who is guaranteed a job (doctor training program) at Mount Sinai straight out of college, with no need for pre-med concentration or anything. :P</p>
<p>Well if you want to get in to those super-leet 6-7 year med programs, it does.</p>
<p>^You mentioned one anecdote…one person…I am talking to the mass of people who want to be doctors.</p>
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<p>right. IN COLLEGE, they FAIL OUT</p>
<p>That’s irrelevant to what i am talking about. I said the performance of high school is not crucial to becoming a doctor. College performance certainly is. I never denied the latter.</p>
<p>However, I do agree that the habits developed in high school stay throughout life. That certainly is true.</p>
<p>But… performance in HS can be related to work ethic.</p>
<p>How can we say that “work ethic” was the reason those people failed out in college? Too many factors to control for.</p>
<p>And yes alot of people do want to go to a good undergrad but more often than not, they do not plan on becoming a doctor.</p>
<p>^true…so how can you say that people that fail to get into med schools from Duke and vanderbilt do so because they have no “work ethic”? </p>
<p>And by “you” i mean MITHOPEFUL.</p>
<p>Besides, I wouldn’t want to go to Duke/Vandy even if i could get in. The competition is too cut-throat with no guarantee.</p>
<p>^It’s level of competition is on par with that of Duke for pre-med.</p>
<p>Not to mention the money factoring in to this discussion.</p>
<p>I’m not going to comment on the above posts… not interested in college debates.</p>
<p>What kind of doctor do you want to be and why?</p>
<p>neurosurgeon because so many prevalent diseases today are neurological (alzheimers, parkinsons, etc). The brain is the one organ that we know the least of. It’s too awesome to describe :)</p>
<p>^I doubt it. Residency programs for them are extremely cutthroat.</p>